Every day, 911 dispatchers across the nation report for duty, ready to answer the call — often from someone experiencing the worst moment of their life. These highly trained professionals serve as the ...

Companies like Uber and Domino’s have more accurate geographic data to pinpoint a customer’s location than emergency response operators in Georgia have to dispatch first responders ...

(TNS) — Proponents of a bill that would boost retirement benefits for emergency dispatchers say the change could help improve recruitment and retention efforts in a high-stress profession that ...

(The Center Square) – House Democrats advanced a bill Tuesday that could upend an emergency dispatch network in Spokane by requiring counties to reallocate 911 tax revenue to cities operating ...

OTTAWA COUNTY, MI – A 911 dispatcher told James Boone that police would respond after he expressed fear about his troubled adult son, who had stopped taking medication for mental illness.

Emergency medical dispatch solutions provider Priority Dispatch has entered a partnership with VectorCare to integrate its emergency dispatch protocols into VectorCare's suite of customisable ...

In the video below, Aneesa Coomer reports on an upcoming hiring event for the Great Falls/Cascade County 911 Center: Dispatcher Doug Sunderland says, “One of the big obstacles we have in hiring ...

Before we get into it, let’s get this out of the way: 911 dispatchers have an incredibly hard job. They’re talking to people who are upset and often having the worst day of their lives, and they have ...

(The Center Square) – House Democrats in the Washington State Legislature advanced a bill Tuesday that could upend an emergency dispatch network in Spokane by requiring counties to reallocate 911 tax ...

LONGVIEW, Texas — The Longview Police Department fired up the grills to honor and support the family of a longtime 911 dispatcher. Casey Lawson, who served as a dispatcher for 22 years ...

MPDS is a software system that helps dispatchers better assess the level of urgency of a 911 call and direct paramedics to the sickest, most at-risk patients first. In so doing, the system is ...